I'm still getting my feet wet with FreeBSD, I'm enjoying myself immensely. I use my BSD box as a work station.
I've read that BSD has legendary uptime. What is the longest you've had a BSD server and or work station running? I just booted my box this a.m., it has been running a few hours.
I thought this might be a fun thing to discuss. I am curious to hear about first-hand accounts of killer uptime.

The longest uptime I had was 812.5 days. This was a FreeBSD 4.11 system. Probably would still be going if it wasn't for external factors (had long duration, scheduled power outage). That box has now been going for 264 days without reboot (after the scheduled shutdown, the OS was upgraded to FreeBSD 6.3 and the hardware was updated a bit).

So 3 years with one scheduled reboot on generic white box hardware. Not too shabby.

Also all shutdowns were due to power outage, hardware upgrades (new hdds installing tonight), or relocation. I have never had my server crash on me ever, or rebooted for software/OS reasons. This is a Samba/MySQL/WWW/SFTP/FTP(closed right now, no use for it) server running 6-Stable until tonight when it will be running 7-stable, oh yea, Sparc64, so even non main stream architectures are stable.